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1 دَكَّ دك , aor. دَكُ3َ , (S,) inf. n. دَكٌّ, (S, K,) He broke, or crushed, in any manner; or bruised, brayed, or pounded; i. e., beat with a thing so as to break or crush; i. q. دَقَّ. (S, K.) He threw down, pulled to pieces, or demolished. (K.) He broke a wall, and a mountain. (Lth, TA.) He beat a thing and broke it so as to lay it even with the ground. (S.) Hence the saying in the Kur [lxix. 14], فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَاحِدَةً, (S,) i. e. And they shall be beaten together with one beating, and the whole shall become fine dust: or they shall both be spread with one spreading, so as to become an even ground. (Bd.) [For] دَكَّ الأَرْضَ, (TA,) inf. n. as above, (K, TA,) means He made even the elevations and depressions of the earth, or ground. (K, TA.) أَذَا دُكَّتِ الأَرْضُ دَكًّا, in the Kur [lxxxix. 22], means When the earth shall be made level, without hills, (Ibn-'Arafeh, Bd,) and without mountains: or it means, shall become fine dust scattered: (Bd:) or shall be shaken so that every building thereon shall be demolished and non-existent. (Jel.) See also دَكٌّ below. ― -b2- دَكٌّ also signifies The spreading (كَبْس [for which كَنْس is erroneously put in the CK]) of earth, and making it even. (K.) When a roof, or flat house-top, has been spread with earth (كُبَِسَ بِالتُّرَابِ), one says, دُكَّ التُّرَابُ عَلَيْهِ [Earth was spread upon it]: and دَكَّ التُّرَابَ عَلَى المَيِّتِ, inf. n. دَكٌّ, means He poured earth upon the corpse. (AZ, AHn.) ― -b3- Also The filling up a well (K, TA) with earth; and so ↓ دَكْدَكَةٌ . (TA.) You say, دَكَكْتُ الرَّكِىَّ I filled up the wells with earth: (S:) and الرَّكِىَّ ↓ دَكْدَكَ He filled up the wells with earth. (TA.) ― -b4- And دَكَّهُ signifies also He pushed him, or thrust him; like صَكَّهُ and لَكَّهُ. (As, TA.) ― -b5- [Hence,] دَكَّ جَارِيَتَهُ (tropical:) He (a man) distressed his young woman, or female slave, by throwing his weight upon her when desiring to compress her. (AA, TA. [See also رَكَّ.]) And دَكَّ الدَّابَّةَ بِالسَّيْرِ (tropical:) He distressed, or jaded, or fatigued, the beast by journeying. (TA.) And دُكَّ الرَّجُلُ, (S, K,) i. e. دَكَّتْهُ الحُمَّى, (AZ, S,) or دَكَّهُ المَرَضُ, (K,) meaning (tropical:) Fever, or disease, weakened the man: (TA:) or he became sick, or ill. (K.) ― -b6- And دَكٌّ also signifies The sending forth camels all together. (Ibn- 'Abbád, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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